Peter Suma
Senior Advisor at BDC
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Suma is an operator-investor and growth equity leader with 30+ years of hands-on building and scaling tech and tech-enabled businesses, now focused on compounding returns via GP partnerships, rigorous underwriting, and active board-led value creation. He has led commercialization and exits across pharma, neuromorphic AI, and enterprise software—directing companies from 2 to 128 people, helping Applied Brain Research reach a $100M valuation and steering PharmaTrust through a $2.2B Walgreens deal process and $243M value build. A serial seed investor and IC author, he launched the first deep‑tech seed commercialization program at a $1B platform, ran six seed deals ($10.6M) with strong follow-ons, and holds 20+ board/advisory roles including MPAC and audit committee experience. His profile combines technical depth (MASc in Systems Design Engineering, HBSc in CS/Genetics) with finance, securities law and governance credentials (MBA, LLM, PDAM, ICD.D), and an unusual blend of patents, WEF Technology Pioneer recognition, and practical experience building national deal‑flow networks. Currently CEO of an AI-investment startup and Senior Advisor to BDC, he brings a rare operator’s discipline to investment underwriting and portfolio transformation.
10 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
LLM - Masters of Securities Law, LLM - Masters of Securities Law at York University - Osgoode Hall Law SchoolICD.D from the Institute of Certified Directors at Rotman Corporate Governance, ICD.D from the Institute of Certified Directors at Rotman Corporate Governance at University of Toronto - Rotman School of ManagementHBSc - Honours Bachelor of Science majoring in Computer Science and Genetics and a minor in Physics, HBSc - Honours Bachelor of Science majoring in Computer Science and Genetics and a minor in Physics at University of TorontoPDAM Financial Engineering - Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Management Major in Financial Engineering, PDAM Financial Engineering - Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Management Major in Financial Engineering at Schulich School of Business - York UniversityMBA in Finance - Masters of Business Administration Finance, MBA in Finance - Masters of Business Administration Finance at The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessGSP - Graduate Studies Program Class of 2012 at NASA Ames Research Centre in Exponential technologies: Nano BioTech Robotics Space Tech Energy & Neuroscience, GSP - Graduate Studies Program Class of 2012 at NASA Ames Research Centre in Exponential technologies: Nano BioTech Robotics Space Tech Energy & Neuroscience at Singularity UniversityMASc Sys Eng - Masters of Applied Science in Systems Design Engineering Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience Intelligent Systems and Systems Theory, MASc Sys Eng - Masters of Applied Science in Systems Design Engineering Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience Intelligent Systems and Systems Theory at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (24)
sarif7
neuroscience7
aem7
python6
blockchain5
large-scale5
javascript4
machine-learning4
visualizer4
deep-learning4
scale4
simulator3
opencl2
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PeterSuma/RatMazeLearn
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
abr/abr.github.io
Jul 2015 - May 2018
Powers appliedbrainresearch.com
Contributions:27 commits, 9 PRs, 170 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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